No Shootings This Year in NYPD Precinct Where Police Officers Were Murdered

Bed-Stuy's 79th Precinct has gone without a shooting incident for nine weeks, according to police. View Full Caption

DNAinfo/Camille Bautista

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — The Bed-Stuy precinct where two NYPD officers were murdered as they sat in their squad car last year has yet to see a shooting in 2015, police said.

The commanding officer of the 79th Precinct said it is the only precinct in Brooklyn North without a shooting incident in the first nine weeks of the year. The 84th Precinct in Downtown Brooklyn also shared in the streak up to Feb. 15, according to NYPD data.

“We haven’t had one shooting in 2015,” Deputy Inspector John Chell told residents at the 79th Precinct's first community council meeting of the year Wednesday.

“I’ll never be happy unless there’s no crime — that’s not going to happen, but I’m sure going to try with the help of my officers.”

Chell attributed the lull to “simple policing” and an “omnipresence” of officers in the precinct.

“It’s been a cumulative effort of crime prevention over the past years and we’re just moving it forward,” the commanding officer said. “And it’s really also thanks to the volunteer partnership with the community.”

Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues. Gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, killed himself soon after gunning down the officers, who worked out of the 84th Precinct but were on patrol that day in the 79th.

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